Graham Brack

@ianbourns @TonyIncenzo @fcbusiness @NonLeagueCrowd I have learned to live with misery.

@GrahamBrack @TonyIncenzo @fcbusiness @NonLeagueCrowd Have you needed PTSD therapy since then ? 😱

QUICK SURVEY Which was the first football match you went to? Who did you go with? What do you remember of the occasion? @fcbusiness @NonLeagueCrowd

@MadsDavies @McCrimmons I’m in the unusual position of having just taken over a benefice for which I wrote the profile 6 years ago. I think the key requirement is the truth, not a gilded version based on what they’d like the benefice to be. You should be able to construct a benefice action plan from it.

Help! I'm writing something on adverts for clergy jobs. Looking for views on - What makes a good ad/parish profile - What makes a bad ad/parish profile - For PCC members and others, was it difficult to draw such things up? Did you need more help? Image: CT Ads Team circa 1964

@2D0XPS I framed mine to make it easy to find. And I haven’t been asked for it since.

Having spent most of the morning searching for the most important document of my life, it’s a shame that actually (seal aside) it looks very boring.

@ALS_Fanzine Yes

If you were in charge of #SAFC, would you make Lutsharel Geertruida's loan spell permanent?🤔

@NorthantsCodger Ah, because the Bishop wasn’t able to come next week so the induction had to be a week before I could be there. The baptism family is half Canadian and understandably didn’t want to change the date after they’d booked flights etc!

@GrahamBrack Strange, I thought your new church would be full today checking out the new vicar after your induction. Why is this not the case?

Final day of curacy and it’s a full one. A baptism at 9.30 and a Eucharist 3 miles away at 11. Then this afternoon it’s hospitality Sunday in the village - free afternoon tea for all so you can come and meet new people.

Plenty of geese in our local lake but I think we’ve a little while to wait for swans.

@NathenAmin @AnnieWHistory @MattLewisAuthor Allow me to ask a supplementary. I don't think Henry would have succeeded against united Yorkists, but I think his mother might have pushed him into an invasion anyway. What was his purpose in life if he didn't invade?

@AnnieWHistory @MattLewisAuthor No. He had no mandate to do so. Henry's claim only begins once Edward V and arguably Buckingham are out the picture.

Not my period (though I did it for A Level & take an interest) & it's probably a stupid question but I've been pondering this & what do we think: if Edward V had kept the kingship, with Gloucester as protector, would Henry Tudor still have invaded? @MattLewisAuthor @NathenAmin?

@ianbourns We’ve been under a Reform council for a year now and I can’t say that maths is their strong point.

@GrahamBrack If it isn’t, move before you get your next council tax bill.

Reading some local parish council minutes this morning, I can't help noticing that they seem, if the minutes are correct, to have voted to give £200 million to a local community project. I suspect, though, that the m in £200m is a misprint.

@2D0XPS I think it's an oversimplification. In the 60s there were people who came to our Evensong because their own parish didn't have one. But I think the parish communion movement also played a part - there were clergy who gave the impression HC "counted" for more than MP/EP.

Often cited as the thing that killed off going to church twice on a Sunday. I'm not quite sure it's true, but either way recovering evening services is difficult as there're now several generations who think of church attendance as an hour on Sunday morning.

@LeenaRonal80521 I toyed with that, then thought it would be better to imagine her face as she got off the plane.

@GrahamBrack Did you put them right? You could have said something polite and deadly. Be worth it, if only to see their expression.

A couple of women at the table behind me are having quite a loud chat. One said she’s off on holiday on Saturday. “France again?” said her friend. “No, we don’t go to France any more. Too many Muslims.” “Yeah, I get that. So where you going then?” “Morocco”.

@Kriskirb If I did people would think it was OTT. But these people move among us. They have debit cards and votes.

@GrahamBrack You couldn’t make it up. 🤣😂🤣😂

@Kriskirb @LuxPatrum Latin original on the left page, English translation on the right.

@GrahamBrack @LuxPatrum Looks interesting…👀

Well, @LuxPatrum this is very fine, and an excellent price. Large pot of coffee called for so I don’t have to keep getting up….

@ianbourns Our sacristan complained that we failed to drain a chalice after last night's Eucharist, which just shows how many there were that one was overlooked. Whatever that test, I doubt we'd have passed it. I think that if you can recall which knee to genuflect on , you're ok.

@GrahamBrack What’s the religious version of a driving sobriety test ?

I have received my new licence from the Bishop, and I am delighted to see that it comes with no endorsements or penalty points.

@purgstallheath Thank you. You have enough to do without slogging out to the far-flung corners of the county! So far, so good. Diary already overspilling but at least relatively few signs of heresy.

@GrahamBrack Warmest congratulations on your new role. Sincerely sorry not to be able to be with you last night, as regrettably needed to be home. I hope Day One has been joyful!